This step-by-step primer allows teachers to use virtual field trips to provide maximum learning opportunities to their students. Twelve complete trips cover common themes in social studies, including family and community, historical times and places, current events, concept courses, and social action. Also included are ideas to help teachers design their own virtual tours and adapt the existing trips to different topics. Difficulties such as limited computer availability and locating material online are discussed.
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Scott Mandel is a middle school teacher, the founder and director of Teachers Helping Teachers—an Internet education service—and the author of Social Studies in the Cyberage and Virtual Field Trips in the Cyberage. He lives in North Hollywood, California.
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Mr. Gonzalez's American history class was studying the Second World War. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
personal exploration time, information from the trip, general education websites, virtual field trip, demonstrates visually how, finding alternative sites, photocopy this chart, following page groups, particular subtopics, history field trips, various subtopics, early world history, graphic organization, finding additional information, download graphics, curricular unit, chart organization, teaching suggestions, update sites Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Zephyr Press, Civil War, French Revolution, United States, Declaration of Independence, Great Depression, New Deal, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams, American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Betsy Ross, Independence Hall, John Hancock, King George, Revolutionary War, Marie Antoinette, Middle East, Native American, Teachers Helping Teachers, Common Sense, Personalities Lives, States Select, Thomas Paine New!
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Mr. Gonzalez's American history class was studying the Second World War. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
personal exploration time, information from the trip, general education websites, virtual field trip, demonstrates visually how, finding alternative sites, photocopy this chart, following page groups, particular subtopics, history field trips, various subtopics, early world history, graphic organization, finding additional information, download graphics, curricular unit, chart organization, teaching suggestions, update sites Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Zephyr Press, Civil War, French Revolution, United States, Declaration of Independence, Great Depression, New Deal, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams, American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Betsy Ross, Independence Hall, John Hancock, King George, Revolutionary War, Marie Antoinette, Middle East, Native American, Teachers Helping Teachers, Common Sense, Personalities Lives, States Select, Thomas Paine New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Field Trips by Capstone on 11 pages
- Make a Movie That Tells a Story on 9 pages
- Social Studies in the Cyberage: Applications With Cooperative Learning by Scott M. Mandel on page 22, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom, 2nd edition by Thomas Armstrong in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Virtual Field Trips in the Cyberage: A Content Mapping Approach by Scott M. (Mitchell) Mandel on page 39, and Back Matter
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- The New-Teacher Toolbox: Proven Tips and Strategies for a Great First Year by Scott M. (Mitchell) Mandel in Back Matter
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